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Rising from the Embers of Financial Risk Addiction -11th January 2017

A recent article on ANZ featured an interview and video with Lorraine Wood, Co-Founder and Owner of South Pacific Private. The interview focuses on her recovery from significant financial debt in the wake of her husband’s death.

At the age of 62, Lorraine Wood had to extract herself from a $7 million debt, following the unexpected death of her life (and business) partner: not being afraid to seek advice and make tough choices helped her through it.

Wood became a shareholder in and part-owner of a portfolio of investments and enterprises, including a successful Sydney real-estate agency, after getting together with her late husband Bill in 1978.

In 1993, the pair established South Pacific Private, an addiction and mental-health hospital on Sydney’s northern beaches which, since opening, has treated more than 7000 patients.